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Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, Alessandro Gavazzi, and the Struggle to Define Republican Liberty in a Revolutionary Age, 1848-1854 Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports 2014 Transatlantic Tales and Democratic Dreams: Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, Alessandro Gavazzi, and the Struggle to Define Republican Liberty in a Revolutionary Age, 1848-1854 Andrew Mach West Virginia University Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd Recommended Citation Mach, Andrew, "Transatlantic Tales and Democratic Dreams: Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, Alessandro Gavazzi, and the Struggle to Define Republican Liberty in a Revolutionary Age, 1848-1854" (2014). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 107. https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/107 This Thesis is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by the The Research Repository @ WVU with permission from the rights-holder(s). 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Transatlantic Tales and Democratic Dreams: Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, Alessandro Gavazzi, and the Struggle to Define Republican Liberty in a Revolutionary Age, 1848-1854 Andrew Mach Thesis submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History Brian Luskey, Ph.D., Chair Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Ph.D. Ken Fones-Wolf, Ph.D. Department of History Morgantown, West Virginia 2014 Keywords: Gaetano Bedini; Alessandro Gavazzi; transatlantic anti-Catholicism; political culture; Cincinnati; Catholic Church; natural rights liberalism; ultramontanism; nativism; 1848 exiles; civic rioting Copyright 2014 Andrew Mach ABSTRACT Transatlantic Tales and Democratic Dreams: Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, Alessandro Gavazzi, and the Struggle to Define Republican Liberty in a Revolutionary Age, 1848-1854 Andrew Mach Catholic Archbishop Gaetano Bedini’s 1853-1854 visit to the United States catalyzed a series of disturbances and debates over the limits of responsive government, free speech, and religious liberty. The Papal Nuncio’s supporters and critics both drew on transatlantic tales and republican visions, casting the “Bedini Affair” as a subversive attack on ultramontane Catholic theology, embarrassing national spectacle, legitimate protest of an 1848 counterrevolutionary, or Protestant defense of exceptionalist ideals against papal “aggression” and conspiracy. The Know Nothing Party’s emergence on the national political scene months after the Nuncio’s visit obscured these competing narratives and ensured that nativist retellings became the authoritative accounts of the Bedini Affair. This thesis returns the Archbishop’s tour to its original social, political, and religious contexts, revealing the importance of immigrant political activism, the impact of cultural narratives on American life and politics, and the uneasy relationship between constitutional theory and antebellum republican practice. The career of Bedini’s harshest critic, Italian apostate priest Alessandro Gavazzi, illustrated the international dimensions of anti-Catholic thought and rhetoric. A well-known revolutionary army chaplain and orator, the Bologna native renounced his vows after concluding that the Vatican would never support Italian democracy. After fleeing his homeland with the help of an American diplomat, Gavazzi launched a controversial lecture tour through Britain, Canada, and the United States. Mixing standard anti-Catholic stereotypes with allusions to recent Church “aggressions” and fierce denouncements of Pope Pius IX and later Bedini, the so-called “Butcher of Bologna,” the former Barnabite friar portrayed his old faith as a spiritually superstitious and politically repressive medieval relic. European exiles and American nativists adapted these tales to suit their own political purposes, transforming Bedini from an unassuming visitor into the embodiment of Catholic autocracy and depravity. These sensationalized stories sparked protests in urban immigrant centers across the United States, showcasing differing partisan, religious, and ethnic interpretations of law and order. Catholic and Democratic elites in cities such as Cincinnati condemned the Bedini “riots,” while nativists, former Whigs, and exiles cast the “protests” as evidence of robust democracy. These disturbances showed that antebellum political debates could transcend sectarian and sectional agendas to contest the very meanings of civil liberty and constitutional government. iii Table of Contents I. Introduction: Cultural Fictions and the Transnational Fight for Freedom, Pages 1- 13 II. Atlantic Riots and Catholic “Aggression”: Competing Views of Republicanism and Church-State Relations, Pages 14-39 III. Free Speech or Violent Insurrection? Political and Rhetorical Reactions to the Cincinnati “Bedini Affair,” Pages 40-69 IV. Conclusion: The Many Affairs of Gaetano Bedini, Pages 70-91 V. Bibliography, Pages 92-96 1 Introduction Cultural Fictions and the Transnational Fight for Freedom On August 22, 1853, religious devotion and revolutionary republicanism collided on the morning train to Montreal when Catholic Archbishop Gaetano Bedini and his fiercest foe, Alessandro Gavazzi, entered the same railcar and seated themselves within feet of one another. The appearance of these middle-aged Italians attracted little attention from casual American riders, despite the sharp ideological and theological divides separating the orthodox papal ambassador, or nuncio, from his republican opponent. Gavazzi, the Bolognese ex-priest whose long, jet-black hair and memorable stage presence were iconic on the international anti-Catholic lecture circuit, told applauding crowds of Anglo-American Protestants and European exiles that Pope Pius IX was to blame for Italy’s continued foreign subjugation. Recently, he had expanded his repertoire to attack Bedini, the “Butcher of Bologna” responsible for the executions of innocent revolutionaries in 1849. Bedini, the quiet prelate whose elegant manners reflected his training as a Vatican diplomat, believed that answering such outrageous charges fell beneath his dignity.1 In the face of Gavazzi’s continued rabblerousing, Bedini remained silent. Yet the former could not be quieted: already that summer he had ignited bloody riots in Canada, and soon Bloody Bedini tales would spark urban dissent across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. But here at the Saratoga Springs train station in upstate New York, the two adversaries remained 1 James Connelly, The Visit of Archbishop Gaetano Bedini to the United States of America: June 1853– February 1854 (Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University, 1960), 33-34; Dan Horner, “‘Shame upon you as men!’: Contesting Authority in the Aftermath of Montreal’s Gavazzi Riot,” Social History 44 (2011): 36; Thomas O’Connor, Fitzpatrick’s Boston, 1846-1866: John Bernard Fitzpatrick, Third Bishop of Boston (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1984), 141; Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, letter to Archbishop John Hughes, February 3, 1854, Archbishop John Hughes Papers, American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Catholic University of America (Washington, DC). 2 tight-lipped, exchanging neither word nor gesture before Gavazzi stepped off the train at Lake George and Bedini continued north toward Montreal.2 As the Archbishop tarried in North America, however, a crisis atmosphere gripped the United States as politicians, religious leaders, immigrants, and nativists responded to Gavazzi’s fearful tales. Italian and German exiles from the failed revolutions of 1848 took strong stands against Bedini, who they believed personified Pius IX’s reactionary policies. Ethnic leaders and newspaper editors, especially in Cincinnati and New York, described Bedini’s alleged past and organized raucous rallies and effigy burnings. Distrustful of the exiles’ socialist tendencies and fearful that their public protests might breach the civic peace, authorities responded by directing law enforcement officials to rein in the demonstrators. Such heavy-handed tactics backfired on Christmas Day, 1853, when unprovoked police attacks on German-American protestors in Cincinnati unleashed the pent-up frustrations of residents. Tired of political corruption, stressed by continual ethnic, religious, and racial strife, and disgusted with police crackdowns on free speech, native-born voters rallied to the immigrants’ cause. Sparked by international events and fanned by local political factors and concerns, anti-Bedinism spread like wildfire across the United States. In Washington, senators debated the meanings of the Archbishop’s visit, while newspapers that had barely noticed the unremarkable diplomat now followed his travels with ceaseless interest.3 Nativists joined exiles at protests in Boston and New York, while American Catholic bishops – many of whom were immigrants themselves – found solace in theology, arguing that anti-Bedinism was a crown of thorns placed upon their heads by Christ. In preceding months, Bedini had traveled from New York to Milwaukee before sailing the Great Lakes, riding 2 Connelly,
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